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From: "Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: A little history
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 09:49:04 -0700
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He sold DRI to Novell in 1991. After selling DRI, Kildall began leading and
funding efforts to help pediatric AIDS victims.

Also in 1985 he sarted another company called Knowledge-Set.

He unexpectedly died in 1994.

Pat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Simmonds" <chris AT 2net DOT co DOT uk>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: A little history


> Hi Patrick,
>
> Thanks for the detail. Great.
>
> I think that Kildall was dead before DRI was bought by Novell. I don't
think he
> could ever have been a second Bill Gates though - he just wasn't like
that. He
> had a life - though short. I don't think Gates has ever had a life.
>
> Patrick Moran wrote:
>
> > It most likely was in the developement of DOS v2 that the UNIX
connection
> > was implemented. I do somewhat like to distort it a little and say
> > UNIX->CP/M->DOS=>Linux, just to show we are making a complete circle and
> > back to where it all started from. It is only slightly exaggerated, but
not
> > too far from the truth. It is more like a U-turn than a circle, but it
just
> > looks better as a circle<grin>.
> >
>
> I take issue here. There is no connection between CP/M and Unix. MS-DOS
post
> v2.0 has a sort of Unixy file system and sort of does redirection and
piping
> which were obviously inspired by Unix (Xenix?), but its very superficial.
I'm
> sure there never was any common code between MS-DOS and Xenix. For one
thing,
> one is written in assembler, the other in 'C'. So your circle is more of a
line:
>
> CP/M -> DOS -> Windows
>
> I see Unix as a totaly separate line.
>
> Chris.
>


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